Water-closet seat.



PATENTED JAN 15, 1907.

R. B. HEPNBR. WATER CLOSET SEAT. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 17, 1905.

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RUFUS B. HEPNER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WATER-CLOSET SEAT.

No. 841,519, Specification oi Letters Patent. Patented Jan. 15, 1907. Application filed August 17, 1905. Serial No. 274,549.

To all whom it may cmwcrn: have devised a novel folding seat having a Be it known that 1, Burns B. HEPNER, a t seat-aperture relatively considerably smaller citizen of the United States, residing in New than the seat-aperture of existing closets, so

York, borough of Manhattan, county and l as to adapt it, as before stated, for the use of 60 State of New York, have made a new and l a child.

useful Invention in Water-Closet Seats, of I have also ascertained in the use of such a which the following is a specification. seat that if some means be not provided for My invention is directed particularly to maintaining the sections of the seat when improvements in supplemental closet-seats unfolded and ready for use in a constant 65 adapted for use with well-known forms of plane there is danger of pinching, and with a view of overcoming this defect I have provided locking means for permanently locking the sections of the seat in a rigid plane, so that while it is of a folding nature it is, in ef- 7o closet-seats; and it has for its objects, first, the provision of a sectional supplemental closet-seat adapted to be folded up for transportation and having a seat-hole of rela- 5 tively much smaller diameter than the correfeet, when adjusted ready for use the same as spending seat-hole of ordinary closet-seats, though it were made of a single piece of ma-. its function being to adapt such supplementerial. tal seat for the use of a child with the ordi- Referr ng now to the drawings in detail,

nary seat second, the provision of means my novel folding seat is composed, prefer- 7 5 whereby the sections of such supplemental ably, of three parallel sections, (indicated by seat may be rigidly locked in a plane wherethe numerals 1, 2, and 3.) To the middle by any danger of the user thereof being section 2 the two side sections 1 and 3 are pinched thereby is avoided. secured by hinges 4 4 on opposite sides, and

For a full and clear understanding of my to the opposite sides of the middle section are 80 invention reference is had to the accompanysecured two hinged locking parts 5 5, proing drawings, in which vided at their outer ends with eyes adapted Figure 1 is aplan view illustrating my imto fit accurately over metal loops 7 7, seprovements as applied to an ordinary closetcured in the op osite faces of the sections 1 seat. Fig. 2 is a side elevational view illusand 3. Each of these hinged parts is pro- 8 5 3o trating the closet-bowl, the ordinary hinged vided with a locking-hook 6 and all so arseat applied thereto, and my improvement as ranged that when the seat is unfolded and assustained thereby. sumes the position shown in Fig. 1namely, Heretofore supplemental seats have been that of a planethe parts may be all rigidly devised for use with ordinary closet-seats for locked together by enteringv the free ends of co 3 5 the purpose of enabling one to provide for his the pivoted hooks 6 6 in the loops or eyes 7 7.

40 which the seat itself is folded up once and an own use in hotel or public closets a cleanly The seat-hole of diminished size for a child is seat which after use may be folded in a comcut out either before or after the parts are pact form for transportation. A number of l secured together, and the device is then such seats have been devised, notably one in ready for use, and it may be placed over the l seat-hole of the seat 8, resting upon the bowl other in which it is folded into quadrants or 9 in the manner shown in both figures of the quarter-sections. All such seats, however, drawings. so far as I am aware, as before indicated, 10 1.0 are soft-rubber bearings secured at have been devised for the use of grown per the four corners of the supplemental seat for 4 5 sons and for their convenience as to cleanlipreventing scratching of the main seat.

ness or sanitary purposes. After use the hooks 6 6 are released and all My invention, while possessing features of the parts folded up in compact form, the like those found in the type of seat referred part 1 turned in the direction of the arrow,

to, has an especial utility in its adaptation to Fig. 2, and the part 3 in the direction of the 05 50 the use of a closet-seat for achild in conneccurved arrow shown in the left of Fig. 2.

tion with ordinary well-known closet-seats I do not limit my invention to the especial found in bath-rooms and in the toilet-rooms details of construction shown, as some of the of public places. features thereof may be departed from and Heretofore, so far as I am aware, no one still come within the scope of my claims no 5 has devised any such means for the convenhereinafter made.

ience of children, and with this end in view I Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

' 1. A sup lemental closet-seat a number of and provided with means on opposite sides from the hinges thereof for locking such sections in a common plane, substantially as described.

2. A sup lemental closetseat embracing three para el sections two of which are hinged. on opposite sides to the third, in combination with means for locking all of the sections rigidly in a common plane, substantially as described.

3. A su lemental closet-seat embracing three para l provided on opposite sides with looking embracing means for locking them rigidly in a commonplane, substantially as described.

4. A supplemental closet-seat having two sections hinged to an intermediate section and on opposite sides, and locking hooks and eyes located on opposite sides from the el sections hinged ogether and l hinges for looking all of said sections in a com- I mon plane, substantially as described.

5. A supplemental closet-seat embracing parallel sections hinged together three folding sections hinged together by two pairs of broad flat hinges located on op osite sides of the seat; in combination with two pairs of broad flat hinged locking parts secured on opposite sides of the middle section and each provided with a pivoted hook and 1 an. eye; together with two pairs of loops sef cured to the outside sections and adapted to pass respectively through the eyes of the ocking parts in such manner that all of the sections of the seat may be secured in a plane, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RUFUS B. HEPNER.

Witnesses:

C. J. KINTNER, M. F. KEATING.

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